For a mother who has spent her entire life loving and raising her child, being beaten and mercilessly thrown out onto the streets by her own son is too heartbreaking to overcome. But this is a common story among the elderly residents of the Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. “I’ve seen mothers in old and torn clothes, their bodies smelling and their hands and feet rotting and covered in maggots,” shares Dr. G.P. Bhagat, founder of the ashram. These abandoned elderly men and women lay starving on the streets hoping for someone to rescue them from their suffering. But most people walk past them without a second glance. “Like this”, Dr. Bhagat explains, “many elders die on the roads.”Since 2003, SHEOWS (Saint Hardyal Educational and Orphans Welfare Society) has rescued over 10,000 elderly people from the streets and given them a home with care and support. The elderly staying at the ashram have all been abandoned by their families and have nowhere else to live. Your support can give them comfort after their abandonment. Donate now.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India). Safe and loving homeFor 20 years, SHEOWS has been providing free shelter, nutritious food three times a day, clothing, medical care, recreation activities and emotional support to abused and disabled elderly people rescued from the streets of Delhi. The Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram has a dedicated rescue team that saves the elderly from the streets and gives them immediate medical care upon their arrival at the home. To tend to the multiple health complications of the seniors, the home has a medical facility with doctors and nurses, a physiotherapy unit, a pathology lab, a digital X-ray monitoring machine and a pharmacy to provide 24-hour care to older adults anytime they require assistance, even during emergencies. Dr. Bhagat prioritizes the health of the seniors and ensures that they receive three balanced meals a day based on their precise health requirements. Need for the fundraiserThe humanitarian mission of SHEOWS is making an impact in the area, as more and more people are being rescued and brought to Guru Vishram Vridh Ashram. To meet the financial costs of running the home, SHEOWS needs support to continue providing the residents with all the facilities that they need. This includes constant care and round-the-clock medical attention, nutritious food and maintaining a hygienic environment to keep the seniors in comfort and good health. Dr. Bhagat explains that as the number of residents is increasing, SHEOWS needs support for food and medicines. “I request you to help these elderly parents lead a peaceful life.”Donate now to help Dr. Bhagat continue caring for the 500 destitute elderly and giving them shelter, food, medical care and the will to carry on living despite their tragic abandonment by their families. Your support will enable SHEOWS to keep serving abandoned senior citizens and help them recover from the trauma of abandonment and life on the streets. “I have been serving these elderly as if they were my own parents”, shares Dr. Bhagat. “I want only one thing - their tears should vanish and they should have a smile on their faces.” To help Dr. Bhagat achieve this dream, your support is critical. Donate now to help SHEOWS care for more abandoned elderly. Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest online donation platform, to support SHEOWS in their mission to rescue the abandoned elderly from the streets and give them shelter, food, medical care, recreational activities and emotional support.

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“My 8-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer and it left the entire family devastated. I was told the cost of treatment would run into lakhs. I was barely managing to make ends meet and there was nothing I could do to save Swaroop. But the Nargis Dutt Foundation stepped in and took care of all the expenses. I can’t even imagine the consequences had they not been there for my son,,” says teary-eyed Devendra.The helplessness that Devendra felt is not uncommon among low-income families of cancer patients. There are many who helplessly see their dear ones, including children, lose their life in the most painful manner. Nargis Dutt Foundation has ensured that thousands of families don’t see this fate. It’s been a ray of hope for thousands of cancer patients since its inception over 40 years back. You can help save many more patients with cancer. Donate now.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India), &amp; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (USA). The cost of each chemotherapy is as much as ₹15,000 and a cancer patient can require between 6 to 12 sessions. The hefty cost for cancer treatment is well beyond the reach for poor families that are barely surviving on two square meals a day. Help Nargis Dutt Foundation provide treatment to poor cancer patients and save them from a slow and painful death.Giving hope to cancer patients“I was just 13 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. When I saw my mother struggling for life it left a lifelong impact on me. Her condition had deteriorated to such an extent she was almost unrecognisable. I know how it feels like to lose a loved one to cancer and I am not alone in my grief. There are thousands of people struggling to save their family members,” says Priya, daughter of noted actress Nargis Dutt, who lost her life to cancer, and in whose name the NGO has been founded. Priya has made it her life’s mission to save as many cancer patients as she can, but she can not do it alone. Nargis Dutt Foundation needs your support. Your donation can not only save cancer patients but can give life to entire families.Need for the fundraiserCancer is often seen as a death sentence. But doctors say that if detected early and if a patient receives essential treatment, the illness can be defeated and the person can return to their lives. “Treatment of cancer often depends on multiple factors including the type of cancer and the stage in which it is detected. Some patients require surgery while some can be cured with just chemotherapy or immunotherapy. “Whatever may be the need, our nonprofit supports patients till the time they are cancer free. We not only take care of the cost of treatment but even assist patients with nutrition which is vital in the fight against cancer. Moreover, we ensure that family members who are already facing immense hardships get proper accommodation and food during treatment so they don’t suffer any further,” says the NGO leader. With your support, Nargis Dutt Foundation can help patients win the fight against cancer and save their families from grief of losing a loved one.Donate to this fundraiser by Give, India’s largest and most trusted fundraising platform, to support Nargis Dutt Foundation in their mission to give life-saving chemotherapy and care to cancer patients who can not afford treatment.

500 cancer patients are fighting for life, help Nargis Dutt Foundation give them urgent chemotherapy

The joy of an elderly seeing their granddaughter’s face for the first time or being able to see sunlight after years of visual impairment is invaluable. Our NGO partner, Nanritam, has given such priceless moments of joy and the gift of sight to thousands of underprivileged seniors who could not afford surgeries. Working in remote villages where it is common for young sons to leave behind their elderly parents in search of livelihood, Nanritam has been a saviour for the visually impaired elderly. Nanritam is in urgent need of funds to be able to provide eye treatment and cataract surgeries to underprivileged elderly in the backward district of Purulia, West Bengal. Donate now to provide life-changing surgeries.Donate easily through UPI, all debit/credit cards and net banking. Charitable donations to this fundraising campaign are tax exempted under 80G of the Income Tax Act (India).Giving the elderly gift of sight“The extent of illiteracy and poverty in the villages of Purulia is shocking. These villages are so remote that not even one eye-care institution has ever reached here. Blindness leaves the elderly so helpless that they are even unable to care for themselves and lead normal lives”, says Ranjana Sengupta, Secretary, Nanritam who has been at the forefront of the NGO’s operations. Nanritam is an organisation of several eye doctors who treat patients for free in far-flung areas.Due to limited livelihood opportunities in backward areas, able-bodied persons often migrate to urban areas for better prospects, leaving their elderly parents behind to fend for themselves. Compounding this situation, many seniors grapple with visual impairment caused by cataract, leading to partial or complete blindness. Ranjana emphasises, "The elderly may not be aware that a quick 5-minute cataract surgery has the power to transform their entire lives."Donate to Nanritam now to provide free cataract surgeries to the elderly and change their lives.Why donate to the fundraiser?“We are in urgent need of funds to purchase modern equipment and to cover operating costs to give vision to the elderly who can't even afford basic treatment and medical care. I urge you to support us in this noble mission and help the elderly get their vision back,” says Ranjana.Donate to this fundraiser on Give, India’s largest and most trusted online donation platform, to help underprivileged elderly get their vision back with free cataract surgeries.

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Healthcare

SOHAM Trust is primarily working with a mission to provide health care to the needy and poor communities focusing mainly on elderly beggars. Trust is also working to achieve the physical, mental, and economic sustainability of beggars. Our main objective is to make these beggars entrepreneurs and citizens of India. All this work is done with the help of donations we receive. Following the work we are doing and continue the same with the funds received from Give India1. Beggars to Entrepreneurs:  While providing medical services on the road, we try to identify the potential/skills of the person and based on this, we convince and counsel them to start small-scale jobs. To date, 200 beggars have left begging and started small-scale businesses / various jobs. In short, beggars have started becoming entrepreneurs!2. Medical help to people lying on the road helplessly -v Hospitalisation - Giving medical help to the people lying on the roadside by hospitalizing them in reputed hospitals. More than 360 people were admitted during this year. This includes cases of accident/cancer/ orthopedic/ Gynaec and so on. Upon treatment offered to start small-scale businesses to them. v Eye Check-up / Operation - This year we completed 1500 cataract operations. Nearly 300 elderly beggars have been given glasses after eye examination. If the person is unable to see, it is the major barrier to starting self-employment, also due to this disability they get into accidents or die while crossing the road...! Hence we are trying to save accidents/deaths and giving chance to make them sustainable with this initiative. v Hearing check-up / Machine – Hearing loss is another major barrier to self-employment as well as a reason of accidents. Hence we are regularly doing audiometry in reputed clinics and giving them hearing machines that have lost the capacity of hearing. This again opens a path towards self-employment as well as sustainability. Given high-quality audio machines to 3 elderly beggars.3. Annapurna Through the Annapurna project, we are delivering a food box to all the poor destitute patients who are undergoing treatment in the hospital, and who have no relatives, or no one in their life to bring them a food box. Apart from this, we are also giving tiffins to the elderly people who are lying on the streets. We are daily feeding approx. 100 poor people. We are buying these tiffins from a disabled beggar's family, who were earlier begging, so as to give financial support to the disabled family. 4. Education:The trust has taken educational responsibility for 52 Children under our cover. They are given all the help they need to get an education and stop begging. The Children in this group include kids studying in the primary to even those studying for graduation like B.Com. four success storiesOne girl is doing BCom, aspiring to become a collector, the second boy is doing third yr Computer Science, the third girl is doing Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and the fourth boy wants to become a Police Sub Inspector. We are paying for their training.5. COMMUNITY CLEANLINESS TEAM)Teams of 100 elder beggars were formed. The trust organizes cleanliness drives in public places through these teams. The trust gives remuneration to these people. This helps them get a dignified way of work. Also elaborates on the importance of cleanliness in personal and public places. It’s a Win-Win situation….We are providing either honorarium or grocery to this team as compensation… Overall we are trying to do things to make the beggars live with dignity and as citizens of India.

Donations through Give Foundation, registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961 are tax-deductible.

DR ABHIJIT SONAWANE

SOCIAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE (SOHAM) TRUST, PUNE

This nonprofit is registered as a charitable trust under section 12A of India's Income Tax Act, 1961.

This nonprofit is registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961. This means you can deduct 50% of the donation you made through your tax return.

Roshni Ramesh

🌟 Together, We’re Making a Difference! 🌟 Your support is empowering Soham Trust to bring hope and dignity to the forgotten. Here's how your donations will be used: 🔹 Medical Care – Covering medicines, lab tests, eye surgeries, and hospitalizations for the homeless beggars.🔹 Annapurna Initiative – Delivering prepared meals and distributing groceries to the roadside beggars.🔹 Community Cleanliness Drive – Forming teams of beggars to clean community spaces, giving them a dignified honorarium.🔹 Training Centre – Supporting a dedicated training center for beggars to learn skills like sewing, crafting, making phenyl, and cloth bags. Funds will be used for raw materials, honorariums for trainers, and stipends for beneficiaries, empowering approximately 50 individuals to rebuild their lives. Dr. Abhijit Sonawane, the Doctor for Beggars, leads this mission, tirelessly working to restore health and hope to those society has forgotten. Every contribution counts. Donate now and transform lives.

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